The Basant Madhur Ensemble showcases the rich tradition of North Indian classical music. The ensemble includes talented ...

The third revolves around a conversation we had maybe 25 years ago, about your electronic fusion project Tabla Beat Science with producer Bill Laswell. You had asked how I follow so many genres with ...

Hussain, who died Dec. 15 at age 73 in San Francisco of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, was regarded as the ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked, when asked by the BBC to explain his genesis as a percussionist. “I was not at all a part of it.” It began ...

2024 saw the passing of cultural icons whose timeless contributions to music, film, literature and the arts will continue to ...

Liam Payne was a global star, part of ‘One Direction’ and a solo artist. The boyband reached peak ... As we prepared to wrap up the year, the world lost another legend. Zakir Hussain, one of the ...

After the band went on hiatus, Payne pursued a solo career and continued to influence the ... lineup for the legendary 1985 charity song "We Are the World." Zakir Hussain, the iconic tabla maestro, ...

Zakir Hussain with mandolin player U. Shrinivas (left) and sitar player Shahid Parvez (right) at the Saptak School of Music in Ahmedabad in January 2007. | Sam Panthaky/AFP There will no longer be ...

Zakir Hussain’s fans ... West where they found fame and fortune. The tabla has an edge over Western drums insofar as it can offer a gripping solo concert. Zakir was not the first to do it ...

He was a creator through his riyaz, a sustainer through global collaborations in jazz and fusion music, and a preserver through ‘truly Indic work’—particularly sangat and solo performances on the ...